The Anantharaman Lab
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Anantharaman Microbiome Lab @UWMadison. Microbial/Viral ecology, omics, biogeochemistry with a focus on sulfur metabolism in environmental and human microbiomes
Madison, WI
Joined September 2017
Congrats 🎉 to our student @patriciatran_ for winning an #ISME18 best poster award! Woot woot. @quendi @UWBact @AnantharamanLab
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Excited to showcase our new @AnantharamanLab paper co-led by @ZhichaoZhou_CHN and Emily St. John focused on the microbial ecology of globally distributed deep sea hydrothermal vent chimneys. Super collaboration with @alr_thermophile. https://t.co/sffDjklEma.
biorxiv.org
Background When deep-sea hydrothermal fluids mix with cold oxygenated fluids, minerals precipitate out of solution and form hydrothermal deposits. These actively venting deep-sea hydrothermal vent...
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Honored to receive the ASM Early Career Award for Environmental Research. And more so, Super honored to be receiving this with @Firestone_Lab. @UWBact @AnantharamanLab
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Proud advisor moment! Sad to see my first PhD student @KrisKieft leave. But onto a fantastic future career ahead! Congratulations Kris on a fabulous PhD. The @AnantharamanLab was truly honored to have you be a part of our family and will miss you.
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Interested in viromics or viruses in microbiomes? Our new manuscript describing the virus binner vRhyme is out! Led by @AnantharamanLab PhD student @KrisKieft in collaboration with @lindskalan @SalamMicrobes @TeemoDoScience @UWBact @UWMadisonMDTP
academic.oup.com
Abstract. Genome binning has been essential for characterization of bacteria, archaea, and even eukaryotes from metagenomes. Yet, few approaches exist for
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New @AnantharamanLab paper describing sulfur metabolism in #colorectalcancer #microbiome is out! Led by MD-PhD student Elise Cowley through a fantastic collaboration w/ Patricia Wolf, Rex Gaskins, and @Ridlon_Lab. @UWMadisonMDTP @UWBact
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
Background Recent evidence implicates microbial sulfidogenesis as a potential trigger of colorectal cancer (CRC), highlighting the need for comprehensive knowledge of sulfur metabolism within the...
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Our new paper describing PropagAtE - our software for prophage activity estimation is out! Use this to study the ecology of prophages in genomes/metagenomes in diverse ecosystems and microbiomes. @KrisKieft @AnantharamanLab @UWMadisonMDTP @UWBact
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Viruses that infect bacteria are key components of microbiomes and ecosystems. They can kill and manipulate microorganisms, drive planetary-scale processes and biogeochemical cycling, and influence...
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METABOLIC is a novel scalable software by @AnantharamanLab which allows for characterization of microbial metabolic predictions, exchanges & interactions, individual contributions to biogeochemical cycling & community-scale functional network construction
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
Background Advances in microbiome science are being driven in large part due to our ability to study and infer microbial ecology from genomes reconstructed from mixed microbial communities using...
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Super excited to pass along this awesome work! @patriciatran_ @AnantharamanLab Do you like microbial genomes and bio geochemistry??? Look no further
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
Background Advances in microbiome science are being driven in large part due to our ability to study and infer microbial ecology from genomes reconstructed from mixed microbial communities using...
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Our paper describing the software METABOLIC is out. We've got some great analyses and visualizations for microbial metabolism, pathways, metabolic interactions, and biogeochemical cycles from microbial genomes and metagenomes. @AnantharamanLab @UWBact
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
Background Advances in microbiome science are being driven in large part due to our ability to study and infer microbial ecology from genomes reconstructed from mixed microbial communities using...
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If you're interested in viral genomics, this new review by #MDTP student @KrisKieft is for you! @UWBact @AnantharamanLab
Our new review on the state of viral/phage genomics led by super-talented Ph.D student @KrisKieft is now out! We discuss conventions, biases, ideologies, and the future of virus genomics. @AnantharamanLab @UWBact
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Our new review on the state of viral/phage genomics led by super-talented Ph.D student @KrisKieft is now out! We discuss conventions, biases, ideologies, and the future of virus genomics. @AnantharamanLab @UWBact
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Want to bin virus genomes from metagenomes? Then #MDTP student @KrisKieft has the right tool for you! Congrats to Kris, current student @salamzader, and trainers @lindskalan @KarthikGeomicro on their preprint! https://t.co/KMZBIDzhcm
@UWBact @AnantharamanLab @madmicrobiome
biorxiv.org
Genome binning has been essential for characterization of bacteria, archaea, and even eukaryotes from metagenomes. Yet, no approach exists for viruses. We developed vRhyme, a fast and precise...
vRhyme is available for download on GitHub
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Why is there a Pseudomonas when there is no Realmonas?
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Excited to share ‘vRhyme’, a new bioinformatics tool for binning viruses and phages into viral metagenome-assembled genomes (vMAGs)! @AnantharamanLab @UWMadisonMDTP @UWBact
biorxiv.org
Genome binning has been essential for characterization of bacteria, archaea, and even eukaryotes from metagenomes. Yet, no approach exists for viruses. We developed vRhyme, a fast and precise...
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Our viral genome binner "vRhyme" is available on github. All feedback/comments welcome. @KrisKieft
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Binning Virus Genomes from Metagenomes. Contribute to AnantharamanLab/vRhyme development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Interested in viruses/phage and metagenomics? Check out our new manuscript led by @KrisKieft describing vRhyme, a software to reconstruct viral genomes from metagenomes! @AnantharamanLab @UWMadisonMDTP @UWBact
biorxiv.org
Genome binning has been essential for characterization of bacteria, archaea, and even eukaryotes from metagenomes. Yet, no approach exists for viruses. We developed vRhyme, a fast and precise...
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The Anantharaman lab is looking for a postdoc to work on developing and applying approaches to study the diversity, ecology, and/or evolution of viruses/phage in the environment. Please RT and spread the word. @UWBact @UWMadisonCALS @AnantharamanLab
anantharamanlab.wisc.edu
The Anantharaman Microbiome Laboratory in the Department of Bacteriology (https://anantharamanlab.wisc.edu/) is looking for a Research Associate (Postdoctoral Scientist) to develop and apply tools to...
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#MDTP Student Highlight: Kris Kieft @KrisKieft is a 5th year student in the @AnantharamanLab who uses metagenomic sequencing data to study viruses in nature and how they impact microbial metabolism. #UWMadison #LoveVirology
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Awesome article in our student newspaper @BadgerHerald on our research on Sulfur Cycling in freshwater lakes spearheaded by Ph.D student @patriciatran_ and her mentee, undergraduate researcher Samantha Bachand. https://t.co/mTmZHEG8BX
@AnantharamanLab @UWBact
badgerherald.com
Editor’s note: The Lab Report is a weekly series in The Badger Herald’s print edition where we take a deep dive into the (research) lives of students and professors outside the classroom. Invisible...
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